Settlers
What resource found the 1840s in California drove Americans west
Gold
What was the Native Americans main food source?
Buffalo
What was the name of the railroad connecting the East to the West
Transcontinental Railroad
This resource was used to build homes, but it was hard to find in the Great Plains
What was the name of towns that popped up near mining sites and would become ghost towns
Boomtowns
Who did settlers compete with for ownership of land in the West, often ending in violence
Native Americans
Leader (Chief) of the Sioux Nation
Sitting Bull
What two groups of immigrants mainly worked on the transcontinental railroad?
Irish and Chinese
Name to two types of homes built in the Great Plains
Soddy and Dugout
What are the names of the two factors that cause people to move?
Push and Pull Factors
Name of the movement of Cattle north to railroads
Long Drive or Cattle Drive
American Colonel killed in the Battle of Little Bighorn
Colonel George A. Custer
What was the name of the two companies that worked on the Transcontinental Railroad
Central Pacific and Union Pacific
What Native American Tribe mainly lived in the Great Plains
Sioux
Which President passed the Homestead Act?
President Abraham Lincoln
Name of the Act passed that encouraged the settlement of the west
Homestead Act
Name of the process of changing Native Americans to American culture and traditions
Assimilation
Where did the two companies meet when finishing the transcontinental railroad?
Promontory Utah
How many buffalo lived on the great Plains before the 1600s
50-60 million
When was the Homestead Act passed?
1862
Name of the idea that America was divinely ordained to expand west
Manifest Destiny
Name of the treaty broken by the US leading to the Battle of Little Bighorn
Treaty of Fort Laramie
Because of the Transcontinental Railroad, travel from NY to CA took how many days?
4-5 days
Plowing after rain, digging wells, or building windmills
Who was the Journalist the coined the phrase "Manifest Destiny"
John O'Sullivan